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Graduate Programs

Hunter College is one of the four campuses of the City University of New York which participate in the CUNY Ph.D. Program in Physics. Graduate students typically spend their first year taking courses at the Graduate School, after which they take a qualifying exam (the First Examination) on four subjects: Classical Mechanics; Electricity and Magnetism; Quantum Mechanics; and General Physics. After passing this Examination, students select a thesis advisor who works with them on their thesis research.

It has been the Department's policy to provide financial support through a combination of fellowships and teaching and research assistantships for all graduate students making satisfactory progress towards a degree.

The following is a list of Doctoral Faculty and their research interests.

Professor JanosBergou: Quantum optics in general; quantum theory of lasers with particular emphasis on correlated emission lasers and lasers without inversion; nonclassical states of the electromagnetic field including squeezed states and their applications; micromasers, the effect of atomic coherence and pumping statistics in maser and laser dynamics; atom Lasers and atomic optics with emphasis on matter wave interferometry; quantum computing and other fundamentals of quantum mechanics using quantum optical methods.